Hi, I recently found this bug in Kicad8, I tried to highlight a net and found that only that single net was getting highlighted but the other nets which have the same label are not being highlighted. I am not sure if it is a bug or some error from my end. I am using Kicad8 on MacOS Sonoma 14.4.
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if this happens:
- after drawing new nets and adding new/copied labels (CE in your example)
- and goes away after saving schematic, closing schematic editor, reopening schematic
- then this is known - there seem to be some difficulties with realtime calculation of the net connectivity. See The same name lable and global lable can not connect together in the same page. (#17713) · Issues · KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad · GitLab
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if the issue (nonhighlighting the wire) persists after reopening eeschema and reloading this schematic: this would be a new (until now unknown) issue. We would need the project archive as example to reproduce the issue.
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By default, local labels are black, and text strings are blue. So you either did not use labels but text, or you changed the defaults for these things, which is possible but mostly confusing for others.